The victim, now 59, testified at a July 17 bench trial that the scrotum injury resulted in stitches the night of the attack and later reconstructive surgery.

"It was excruciating," the man said of the pain. "I was close to blacking out. I felt tearing... They were coming off my body, I felt... my testicles."

Reber, meanwhile, maintained she had acted in self-defense after her accuser became violent during an argument.

The victim said he had ended an on-again, off-again relationship with Reber a few days before he was attacked.

He said when Reber stormed into his westside house on the night of March 30, 2012, she was "very aggressive" and slapped him in the face before grabbing his scrotum. He said the attack left him "torn and bleeding."

He acknowledged striking Reber on the top of her head in a bid for force her to release her grip.

The defendant maintained the man was attacking her when she grabbed his genitals "until he got off of me."

In her ruling, Vorhees wrote that Reber was not entitled to "assert self-defense... (because) she was not in a place she was legally entitled to be."

"The victim had told her twice to leave his home," the judge wrote. "She did not leave and a fight occurred."

Vorhees describes a voice-mail message Reber left on the victim's telephone earlier that day as having "an angry and bitter tone."

The judge noted Reber "admitted she knowingly touched (the victim) in the genital area and twisted." She also ruled that Reber "provoked, instigated or participated willingly in the violence."

Vorhees set sentencing in the case for Sept. 24. Chief Trial Deputy Prosecutor Eric Hoffman presented the state's case against Reber, who was defended by Anderson attorney Zaki Ali.

The victim is also pursuing a lawsuit against Reber.

Contact news reporter Douglas Walker at 213-5851. You can also follow him on Twitter @DouglasWalkerSP